Crime Prevention Through
Environmental
Design (CPTED)
3Si consultations focused in the area of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) are developed around four recognized key strategies:
Territoriality: Encouragement of the legitimate definition of ownership of space (e.g., landscaping, fences)
Natural Surveillance: Ensuring that there is high visibility in an area discourages criminal activities.
Activity Support: Encouragement and facilitation of legitimate activities that increase the community use of public space (e.g., youth sports, senior activities)
Access Control: The effective directing of pedestrian and vehicular traffic can have an effect on crime opportunities. Locating exits, entrances, fencing, landscaping, and lighting so that traffic is controlled, but not trapped, can have a profound effect.
3Si works with institutional and corporate clients in collaboration with municipal planners, architects, landscape designers, and law enforcement agencies to create environments that assist in deterring crime and unwanted behaviour. 3Si team members’ up-to-date knowledge and experience can be implemented either at the design phase or in a retrofit program.
Project areas where 3Si consultants have assisted in CPTED projects include:
- Burnaby Hospital, Burnaby, British Columbia
- Central City Development expansion, Surrey, British Columbia
- Children and Women's Health Centre of British Columbia
- City of Burnaby, British Columbia
- City of North Vancouver, British Columbia
- City of Surrey, British Columbia
- City of Vancouver, British Columbia
- Greater Vancouver Transit Authority (now South Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority)
- ICR Projects, commercial and residential development, City of Pitt Meadows
- Infinity Towers @ Central City, Surrey, British Columbia
- MSA Hospital, Abbotsford, British Columbia
- Rapid Transit Project 2000 Ltd. - SkyTrain Millennium line (multiple stations)
- RCMP “E” Division Headquarters project, Surrey, British Columbia
- St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia
- Thunderbird Entertainment Village, Langley, British Columbia
- Vancouver Convention Centre Expansion Project